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Semifinal stunner changes women's hockey map

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Friday, February 17, 2006

TORINO, Italy -- For the record, they say "miracle" in Sweden exactly the same way. "Mirakel." And as the Swedish women danced around the ice, trying not to bump into the still-stunned American women, as they launched into each other's arms, and as they spontaneously threw their hands up into the air in the still-buzzing Palasport Olimpico on Friday night, you could almost hear whoever passes for Al Michaels in Sweden asking into the void: "Do you believe in mirakels?" In a game no one gave ...

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